Sentences with phrase «passive house principles»

It is important to us that everybody we engage has a good appreciation for passive house principles and construction.

The Beehive project developed into a test bed for passive house principles.

This course focuses on building enclosure optimization, and provides a foundation in passive house principles, while stressing the importance of construction fundamentals and proper sequencing.

However, the two homes were certified to the less onerous AECB Silver Standard, which is based on passive house principles of fabricfirst design and high quality ventilation, and is designed using the Passive House Planning Package software.

Click here to see a short video outlining the idea, which is based on passive house principles.

«As a physics professor, Peter had the knowledge not just to understand passive house principles — but to dig deep into the science behind the standard too.»

Not exact matches

The cabin of Nanuq is built to the passive house's principles, which by its design makes the use of a heating system almost needless.

A local contractor, Craig Morgan, who had been lined up to work on the house from the start, had no passive house experience but did have an instinctive grasp of the basic principles.

Along with a much wider ecological agenda, the house employed fabric first principles of insulation and airtightness, and met passive house design targets at a time when the standard was still in its infancy in the UK.

And this is with buildings designed to meet the passivhaus standard benchmarks and modelled in the passive house planning package, not just designed to some notional «passivhaus principles».

However, Cowper Care's next construction project, a 100 - bed nursing home in Kimmage, which Daire is now working on, won't be to passive house specifications, mainly due to the cost and scale, but he will be taking on board a number of the details and principles he and his team has learnt working on Alexandra Crescent.

But along the way he discovered the passive house standard and let its principles guide his way towards a warm, airtight and healthy home.

The decision to retrofit the Beehive using the principles of passive house design was taken near the outset.

The client had originally looked at the possibility of meeting the Enerphit standard for retrofit, but thought it would be too expensive, though they still planned to adopt passive house design principles.

Yet builders are installing air conditioning in new houses that ignore every single passive design principle (along with solar panels pointing west to add meaningless green bling).

«Our design approach with every house of apartment we're building takes the passive house design principles, he says.

How can a house embrace passive solar principles when all the sun's heat and light is to the south — but all the best views are to the north?